Quotes about death
death nice fetch
If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out! Mark Twain
death years finals
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. Nicholas Sparks
death remember humans
There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. John Green
death real loving-someone
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
death eye wish
If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes. Ozzy Osbourne
death routine heroism
Routine is the death to heroism. P. G. Wodehouse
death sports humorous
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
death pain lays
Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.] Ovid
death men funeral
Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]
death sleep fate
Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]
death law goal
We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]
death men funeral
Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.
death tears widows
We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.
death birth cease
What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.
death lying men
Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.
death sleep fool
O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?
death new-beginnings men
Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.
death here-and-there spirit
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.
death evil kind
An evil life is a kind of death.
death dog horse
It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive. Paul Newman
death dying dies
We all die. It's just a question of when.
death suicide
Végre nem butulok tovább (I've finally stopped getting dumber). Paul Erdos
death prayer pain
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow. Mark Helprin
death men lazy-man
Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others. Michel De Certeau
death years alive
It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago. Michel de Montaigne
death foundation life-is
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
death men birth
No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
death guests feds
Like a full-fed guest, depart to rest ...
death dying obligation
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
death oneself
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
death book people
If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
death work garden
I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
death life-and-death trouble
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.